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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 1


I am not into XEmacs.  Does XEmacs run without an X-server?

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:49 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Shadow Framebuffer Test 1
> 
> 
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > The code which comes with Xfree86 has some different export symbols.
> > libz.dll reports at least one missing symbol if the one 
> from cygwin/contrib
> > is used.
> > I have not compared xpm code from xfree86 with Chuck code, 
> but Xpm is now
> > standard library for Xfree86 4.x. 
> 
> Code was taken from 4.0.1 XFree86 distribution. (Acutally, at 
> that time
> it was identical to 3.4k except for some documentation strings.)
> 
> > Some users at opendx mailing list
> > reported weierd pixels
> > if xpm from contrib directory was linked.  Xpm is part of 
> Xfree86 4.0 and it
> > will be going
> > through modifications and enhancements by Xfree86 team. I, 
> personally,
> > see no reasons to distribute Xpm separately any more.  How 
> many applications
> > use
> > Xpm compiled with MSVC without X?  I am hardly aware of 
> any, except, perhaps
> > Buba rxvt?
> 
> XEmacs.  And that ONE app is enough to justify the cygXpm-noX.dll IMO.
> 
> --Chuck
> 


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